Word: pitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mailomat, whose price to the Government, or rental to industry, is still unfixed, is a development of the postage meter Walter Bowes persuaded the Post Office to try in 1920, year after he and the late Arthur Pitney formed Pitney-Bowes. Since then use of postage meters has risen until they now provide the U. S. Government with 16% of its annual postage revenue. Practically every big U. S. company has either rented or bought a Pitney-Bowes machine to speed up its mailing. Pitney-Bowes profits meanwhile have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year...
...antipodal pair have in common is a love of sailing. In 1929 Yachtsman Bowes sailed his six-meter Saleema to an international championship. In 1938 Yachtsman Wheeler won the Astor cup with his Q class Cottonblossom II. Messrs. Bowes and Wheeler have still another thing in common, their business-Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Co. of Stamford, Conn. Chairman Bowes invents the meters and President Wheeler sells them. Last week they presented their slickest postage meter to date, the "Mailomat...
...after Jack Pitney and his mates went down to the Severn and gave the Midshipmen a tough run for their money in rough water to lose by a little more than half a length to the Poughkeepsic kings. Spuhn has a right to be anything but gloomy...
Rounding out the stern trio, to which Spuhn pays the sincere compliment of calling it "steady," come Hill Bennett and Captain Pitney. Lex Bayard moved back into the No. 5 seat after the Navy contest and is still doing business at the same stand. Charlie Dennison is at home in the first boat, having left his No. 2 of last year to carry on activity at 4. Pat Merle Smith at 3 has been having no trouble in getting back to galley-slave form after a year...
...Root-Pitney" members who will divide the winner's check are W. Parmer Fuller and Gerald M. Trautman, speakers; and Clarence M. Condon, Bernard E. Drape, Robert S. Fougner, Leslie L. Roos Malcolm I. Ruddock, and Arthur L. Webber, all of whom worked on the brief...